Test 3 · ★ · Arabian Nights, The Story of the First Calender, part 11:…
bruv, why did Zobeida's anger just chill out when they said they were kings' sons?
Mova's choice: option 1 · The right answer: option 3 · wrong ✗ · Who acts: they, Zobeida · What happens: chill out, say, be, anger · To what, where: sons · Speech: someone speaks here
This is test 3 · ★ of lesson 171 «Arabian Nights, The Story of the First Calender, part 11: the Calenders reveal who they are, and the First Calender begins his tale» of the books course of Mova's primary school. The page gives the question's syntax tree — a dependency tree in the style of Universal Dependencies — and its pragmatics clause by clause, then the 4 options as the student saw them, each with its tree and pragmatics. Every text is parsed by Mova itself. How the student answered it, with the score of every option and why: the test at school.
The question
The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)
| # | word | lemma | UPOS | features | head | relation |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | bruv | bruv | NOUN | Number=Sing | 9 chill | vocative |
| 2 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 1 bruv | punct |
| 3 | why | why | ADV | PronType=Int | 9 chill | advmod |
| 4 | did | do | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=1 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 9 chill | aux |
| 5 | Zobeida | Zobeida | PROPN | Number=Sing | 7 anger | nmod:poss |
| 6 | 's | 's | PART | _ | 5 Zobeida | case |
| 7 | anger | anger | NOUN | Number=Sing | 4 did | obj |
| 8 | just | just | ADV | _ | 9 chill | advmod |
| 9 | chill | chill | VERB | Mood=Imp VerbForm=Fin | root | root |
| 10 | out | out | ADP | _ | 9 chill | compound:prt |
| 11 | when | when | ADV | PronType=Int | 13 said | advmod |
| 12 | they | they | PRON | Case=Nom Number=Plur Person=3 PronType=Prs | 13 said | nsubj |
| 13 | said | say | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 9 chill | advcl |
| 14 | they | they | PRON | Case=Nom Number=Plur Person=3 PronType=Prs | 18 sons | nsubj |
| 15 | were | be | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 18 sons | cop |
| 16 | kings | king | NOUN | Number=Plur | 18 sons | nmod:poss |
| 17 | ' | 's | PART | _ | 16 kings | case |
| 18 | sons | son | NOUN | Number=Plur | 13 said | ccomp |
| 19 | ? | ? | PUNCT | _ | 9 chill | punct |
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | chill out | past · do-support | bruv vocative | vn amuse-31.1 «NP V ADV-Middle»: agent=Experiencer | |||||
| 2 | say speech: assert | past | they | vn say-37.7-1-1 «NP V that S»: agent=Agent | |||||
| 3 | is a | past | they | kings's sons | tree rules | ||||
| 4 | anger | Zobeida | nom anger «feeling intransitive»: poss=agent |
One row per clause the reader finds. «not said here»: a role filled from the clause above. «roles by»: a VerbNet class and frame when one fits the verb, else the reader's rules on the tree.
The options
Option 1 · ← Mova's choice
cos she realised they were royal sons and felt pity for them at last
The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)
| # | word | lemma | UPOS | features | head | relation |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | cos | cos | NOUN | Number=Sing | 3 realised | nsubj |
| 2 | she | she | PRON | Case=Nom Gender=Fem Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 3 realised | nsubj |
| 3 | realised | realise | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | root | root |
| 4 | they | they | PRON | Case=Nom Number=Plur Person=3 PronType=Prs | 7 sons | nsubj |
| 5 | were | be | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 7 sons | cop |
| 6 | royal | royal | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 7 sons | amod |
| 7 | sons | son | NOUN | Number=Plur | 3 realised | ccomp |
| 8 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 9 felt | cc |
| 9 | felt | feel | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 3 realised | conj |
| 10 | pity | pity | NOUN | Number=Sing | 9 felt | obj |
| 11 | for | for | ADP | _ | 12 them | case |
| 12 | them | they | PRON | Case=Acc Number=Plur Person=3 PronType=Prs | 9 felt | obl |
| 13 | at | at | ADP | _ | 14 last | case |
| 14 | last | last | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 9 felt | obl |
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | realise | past | cos | tree rules | |||||
| 2 | is a | past | they | royal sons | tree rules | ||||
| 3 | feel | past | cos not said here | pity | last | for sons = son | vn hunt-35.1 «NP V NP PP.theme»: agent=Agent pity=Location for they=Theme |
Option 2
cos they showed her a letter from the Caliph
The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)
| # | word | lemma | UPOS | features | head | relation |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | cos | cos | SCONJ | _ | 3 showed | mark |
| 2 | they | they | PRON | Case=Nom Number=Plur Person=3 PronType=Prs | 3 showed | nsubj |
| 3 | showed | show | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | root | root |
| 4 | her | she | PRON | Case=Acc Gender=Fem Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 3 showed | iobj |
| 5 | a | a | DET | Definite=Ind PronType=Art | 6 letter | det |
| 6 | letter | letter | NOUN | Number=Sing | 3 showed | obj |
| 7 | from | from | ADP | _ | 9 Caliph | case |
| 8 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 9 Caliph | det |
| 9 | Caliph | Caliph | PROPN | Number=Sing | 6 letter | nmod |
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | show | past | they | a letter | her = she | the Caliph | vn transfer_mesg-37.1.1-1-1 «NP V NP-Dative NP»: agent=Agent she=Recipient letter=Topic |
Option 3 · ✓ the right answer
cos being sons of kings made her calm down
The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)
| # | word | lemma | UPOS | features | head | relation |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | cos | cos | X | _ | 3 sons | amod |
| 2 | being | be | AUX | Tense=Pres VerbForm=Part | 3 sons | cop |
| 3 | sons | son | NOUN | Number=Plur | 6 made | nsubj |
| 4 | of | of | ADP | _ | 5 kings | case |
| 5 | kings | king | NOUN | Number=Plur | 3 sons | nmod |
| 6 | made | make | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | root | root |
| 7 | her | she | PRON | Case=Acc Gender=Fem Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 6 made | obj |
| 8 | calm | calm | VERB | VerbForm=Inf | 6 made | xcomp |
| 9 | down | down | ADP | _ | 8 calm | compound:prt |
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | is a | gerund | cos sons | of kings | tree rules | ||||
| 2 | make | past | cos sons | her = she | tree rules | ||||
| 3 | calm down | infinitive | her = she not said here | vn subjugate-42.3 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent |
Option 4
cos they promised to pay her back
The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)
| # | word | lemma | UPOS | features | head | relation |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | cos | cos | NOUN | Number=Sing | root | root |
| 2 | they | they | PRON | Case=Nom Number=Plur Person=3 PronType=Prs | 3 promised | nsubj |
| 3 | promised | promise | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 1 cos | acl:relcl |
| 4 | to | to | PART | _ | 5 pay | mark |
| 5 | pay | pay | VERB | VerbForm=Inf | 3 promised | xcomp |
| 6 | her | her | PRON | Case=Gen Gender=Fem Number=Sing Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs | 7 back | nmod:poss |
| 7 | back | back | NOUN | Number=Sing | 5 pay | obj |
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | promise speech: promise | past | they | cos not said here | vn promise-37.13 «NP V NP that S»: agent=Agent cos=Recipient clause=Topic | ||||
| 2 | pay not said to happen | to-infinitive | they not said here | her back | vn pay-68-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent back=Asset |
Text: the tests of Mova's primary school, written for Mova (world/data/school/), as the course runner gave them to the student. Trees: Mova's own parse — the en model on the CPU, when the site is built — not checked by a teacher; they may be wrong. Frames: Mova's frames reader (prag), each text read on its own. Elamur Cosmic License.
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